As a kid, I was a huge comic fan and collector. During the 60's, I was more into UK comics such as Topper and Beezer but as I grew older I began to get into anything Marvel UK published such as the Spectacular Spiderman, Mighty World of Marvel or the Avengers.I loved and bought them all. But if I had to choose a favourite comic from all those I'd collected it would be the UK version of PLANET OF THE APES which was first published in October of 1974.
There is something about the whole ape mythology that just fascinated me as a 11 year old. The idea that astronauts from our time were lost in space somewhere and had landed on a planet run by simians was both exciting and scary in equal measure. I remember seeing an advert on Saturday morning kids tv promoting the first issue of POTA along with DRACULA LIVES which had also launched on the same day. Pocket money in hand, I had run down to our local newsagents and there in one of those tall metal wire racks you could spin around where both first issues. Magic. I put the free posters above my bed and always made sure those #1's were on the top of my comics pile...
Great memories. I still kick myself for swapping them months later!!
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